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Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865: [Instructional Materials] (ICPSR 3466)

Principal Investigator(s):
Oberly, James W., University of Wisconsin-Eau-Claire.

Summary:

These instructional materials were prepared for use with
UNION ARMY RECRUITS IN BLACK REGIMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1862-1865
(ICPSR 9426), compiled by Jacob Metzer and Robert A. Margo. The data
file and accompanying documentation are provided to assist educators
in instructing students about the demographic, military, and medical
history of African-American men who volunteered for service in the
Union Army during the American Civil War. An instructor's handout has
also been included. This handout contains the following sections,
among others: (1) General goals for student analysis of quantitative
datasets, (2) Specific goals in studying this dataset, (3) Suggested
appropriate courses for use of the dataset, (4) Tips for using the
dataset, and (5) Related secondary source readings. This data
collection was designed to examine the characteristics of free Blacks
and ex-slaves mustered into the Union Army between 1862 and the end of
the Civil War. In addition to variables on personal characteristics
(such as skin, eye, and hair color, height, age, birthplace, and
occupation before enlistment), the data also contain Army-related
variables (such as regiment and company number, rank, enlistment date
and place, changes in rank, and date and cause of end of service).

These instructional materials were prepared for use with
UNION ARMY RECRUITS IN BLACK REGIMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1862-1865
(ICPSR 9426), compiled by Jacob Metzer and Robert A. Margo. The data
file and accompanying documentation are provided to assist educators
in instructing students about the demographic, military, and medical
history of African-American men who volunteered for service in the
Union Army during the American Civil War. An instructor's handout has
also been included. This handout contains the following sections,
among others: (1) General goals for student analysis of quantitative
datasets, (2) Specific goals in studying this dataset, (3) Suggested
appropriate courses for use of the dataset, (4) Tips for using the
dataset, and (5) Related secondary source readings. This data
collection was designed to examine the characteristics of free Blacks
and ex-slaves mustered into the Union Army between 1862 and the end of
the Civil War. In addition to variables on personal characteristics
(such as skin, eye, and hair color, height, age, birthplace, and
occupation before enlistment), the data also contain Army-related
variables (such as regiment and company number, rank, enlistment date
and place, changes in rank, and date and cause of end of service).

Access Notes

This study is intended for instructional use, and may be subsets of the original data. Variables and/or cases may have been removed to facilitate
classroom use.

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Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Oberly, James W. Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865: [Instructional Materials]. ICPSR03466-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03466.v1

This collection was archived by ICPSR to promote the use of social science data in undergraduate and graduate education through the sharing of faculty-submitted ICPSR data-based instructional materials developed for use in the classroom.

The data are provided as an SPSS
portable file, which was created from the ASCII data available from
ICPSR 9426.

Methodology

Sample:
Judgmental sample of eight Black infantry regiments in the
Union Army. The sample represents slightly under 5 percent of all
Black troops and has wide regional coverage within the Southern
states.

Data Source:

Union Army Regimental Records

Restrictions: SIMI instructional modules are to be used at ICPSR
member institutions only. They may not be redistributed without the
express written permission of ICPSR.